The BBC's 6 Music does like to assume a rock'n'roll attitude in its listeners. "If you slept through the last 24 hours," Chris Hawkins said at the top of yesterday's early breakfast show, "it's now five past five with the clock change."

This is a fine pre-breakfast show, a slightly gentler version of what's to come in the main daytime schedule but imbued with the station's core qualities: lovely music, sense of humour, and warm interaction with listeners. One emailed in to say he had little of note to report other than a cricked neck after a "dramatic hair-combing incident". There are lots of funnily low-key moments like that.

Musically, the show serves the various early-morning constituencies well with a mix of soothing and stirring: think Belle and Sebastian, Steel Pulse and James Brown's Get Up. It also has a soupcon of irreverence, as if assuming nobody's really listening at such an early hour. Hawkins's banter with weather reporter Susan Powell was one of the best bits of the programme, with her tales of how to help an "egg-bound chicken" (holding it over a steaming kettle), mock outrage when he referred to someone as her boss ("My boss? Do you mind!") and parting shot to him after the weather. "Lots of love," she said. "Stay out of custody."